When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.

In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one.

What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other

I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.